<p>is there anything else we can do to give us a better for chance of getting accepted even though our applications are all done with?</p>
<p>I dont think so, especially at this point I think whatever we send will most likely go to the trash. But I don't know...perhaps a letter or something?</p>
<p>btw, I just got the postcard (not at all what I expected, just some silly little blue card saying that they received my online application. Yeah. It took over 3 weeks, so I guess they must be swamped.</p>
<p>Or they just don't like me :(</p>
<p>I have the same two schools as you bball87 :) Columbia's my top choice, Penn's next.</p>
<p>I received my Columbia PIN a few days ago...does Penn have an application tracking website like Columbia? I've only gotten a Penn postcard stating they have my stuff. Kinda sucks, considering Penn is literally down the street from my school (I go to Drexel and work for Dr. Art Caplan at Penn)</p>
<p>sorry if this is a stupid question...but do all schools offer midterm reports? im on a semester calendar and i was only able to send my first semester grades, which weren't all too awesome. id love to send a midterm report, but we don't have official grades till the end of the year, which means after they make their decisions. again, sorry if i'm being stupid but could someone help?</p>
<p>...I don't think any school 'offers' midterm reports in a sense that it is provided to them automatically. With midterm reports, or at least with Penn's, your meant to take the form that Penn gave and go to each professor individually, say that you need a midterm grade because you are applying to transfer, and have them put in your grade to date. Some professors may not do this, but they usually do (I had a really annoying one who argued that he didn't have to do any thing...he still did it though).</p>
<p>"(I had a really annoying one who argued that he didn't have to do any thing...he still did it though)."</p>
<p>Thats very annoying. yeah, it was a hassle getting the form to all my professors cause they had to check my grades. :P</p>
<p>I really hate that professor too. An A is 93 and I had a 92.5 and he put down A-...whereas another one just asked me what I got on the first test (which was also a 92.5), didn't check the grade, which is probably because he trusts his students a lot and he is a little lazy, and just put down A and made a nice remark. </p>
<p>Does anyone else not know Penn? I mean I know its a great school, has a nice history, and its known as the party-ivy (?), but I don't feel like I really know Penn as much as I know Chicago or even NYU. Perhaps its because I'm obsessed with Chicago and I hang around NYU's 'campus' a lot, or maybe its because Penn isn't that unique of an institution. I'm not saying that its just a regular old school, but I have yet to see a distinguished aspect of the school or its student body. Hopefully this won't be misunderstood...</p>
<p>What do you guys think? Whats special about Penn? What seperates it from the other elite schools?</p>
<p>*I should also note that I applied to CAS.</p>
<p>Philllllly :D (woot). academics are really great, you can mold your own majors and... a nice campus =)</p>
<p>But like I said, those arent really things that would seperate Penn from the other 'elite' schools. What do you mean by molding your own majors?</p>
<p>I guess I'm just looking for personality</p>
<p>Hrm still haven't received any confirmation from Penn :/</p>
<p>I guess Penn isn't special :(</p>
<p>Penn is special because no one knows about it and yet it is prestigious. rephrase only somewhat knowledgeable people know about it.
whereas everyone knows what harvard is. Also upenn has warton. And if you want to become an i-baner, consultant or w/e, upenn is golden.</p>
<p>Look, not everyone applying to Penn has stats so astronomical. I'm living proof, see? =P</p>
<p>GPA: 3.58 at Iona College
SATs: 1320
HS GPA: Never converted it to a 4.0 scale, hell I don't even know what it was at the end of all four years. So, skip. (Good APs tho, 4 5's and 2 4's)
ECs: Club presidency, general member of student government
HS ECs: Track/cross-country captain, ran my dad's campaign for the school board (it came about as a result of the whole Mepham scandal, which for those who don't remember/didn't follow was pretty much a high school version of what's now going on at Duke), volunteer internship with a local legislator
Recs: 1 excellent one (didn't see, but the prof. said he'd "rave about me"), 1 pretty much generic
Midterm grades: 12 credits at NCC (switched over this semester from Iona) and all A's
Essays: I think I pulled together some really exceptional stuff - the second one was about the school board campaign experience and how it served to frame my ethics and maturity today - but I can't really be my own critic.</p>
<p>Yeah, nothing special statwise. I pretty much applied to Penn (and Wharton, no less) just for the hell of it - my real targets are NYU and BU, with fingers crossed tightly for Georgetown. So those of you who do get in can thank me for making the lot of you look that much better by comparison. =P</p>
<p>^^^^ hahahaha, don't think like that =|. you just might make it--your stats aren't bad.</p>
<p>your stats aren't bad--i agree </p>
<p>you might make it--i disagree
(HAHAHA i'm just kidding!)</p>
<p>Haha, thanks for the words of encouragement (or not =P). But I think I'm literally incapable of being admitted - you need two semesters of Calculus to enter Wharton as a junior and I've got only one. And furthermore, your typical business schools look for strong math qualifications - and while I did get a decent math SAT (670) I'm much more of an English/history student. Suffice it to say, the grade I did get in Calc 1 reflects this. =P</p>
<p>Georgetown, I think, would be a different matter, because they seem to be looking for students who have some sort of very firm humanistic understanding, and I reckon that's about where I fall. I've read that companies hiring from the MBA pool tend to look favorably on McDonough students because they have a more realistic and ethical attitude than students from the Ivies, Sloan, Haas, Kellogg, etc, who in comparison have somewhat pompous tendencies, and often look at the business world as being more of a cold, mathematical void (I actually had quite an engaging conversation about this with my Georgetown interviewer). So in that regard, I think it might even be better - at least for someone like myself - to do the undergrad work at a school like Georgetown and have that as a backbone, and think about a school like Harvard or Wharton for MBA instead.</p>
<p>Or maybe that's just rationalizing because I can't get to the Ivy level as an undergrad. Either way. =P</p>
<p>so who submitted the optional picture of yourself in the application?</p>
<p>i did. heh. i was deciding whether or not if i should send a goofy one versus a serious one.</p>
<p>i didn't want to come off as a joke (though my application may say otherwise) and i wanted to be serious about transferring... er, so i sent a serious one. =P</p>
<p>hahaha awesome. would you happen to know if penn's done reading their apps yet?</p>
<p>probably not. i think they will end sometime in the middle of next week. people are notified on a rolling basis so the earliest people will be notified is may 1st (most likely for people who applied... first; first come, first served).</p>